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Nevada County picayune., 1887-03-09
AGRICULTURAL.
Why Some Farmers Harvest Pow erty.

erty.
 They hug ihc special farming" heresy. They depend mainly on one crop. and when that fails. the years work is practically lost.
 In stock breeding they don't be gin with purely bred animals, and at the end of. say, five years, find they have sank money, lime and effort in raising lot of trash for which no adequate return can be obtained. Or if they do not en. gage ili stock raising as a feature of their business they hang on to lot of dry cows or crippled hor- ses which live only to consume l feed and rob the useful ones.
 They engage in farming with no capital except the land they occu- py. Buildings, machinery. tools and other implements have to be secured out of the proceeds of crops raised, in addition to SUD- porting their families. \ convc- mient loan, supplies temporary re- lief. Debt. however, is a remorse- less tyrant, and leads directly to mortgages, default in interest pay ments, foreclosure and financial ruin,
 They have no appetite for fhe business. They are not foresight ed, prompt, skilIful, thoughtful, ob- servant, persevering, industrious.
 They fail to drain the swamp meadow which could with d little effort be made the most productive portion of the farm. They do not have a thorough system about their work. They fail to regard their business as a piece of clockwork, which should be wound up and regulated
 They do not read and study enough.
 They harvest their crops with hand tools instead of using labor saving machinery.
 They save two dollars d month on the hired mans wages and pay two dollars per day for an extra hand in consequence. They save the few nickcls that would buy their local paper for a whole year, and in one day lose twenty dollars on a shipment sent to market at the wrong time.
 They buy inferior seeds because they are little cheaper than others and sell the best of their own rais- ing becaus there is an apparent money gain in the operation.
 They buy more land than they can take good care of.
 They follow in all the old ruts which were "goOd enough for their forefathers.
 They jog along without any def. nite ideas as to what crops are most profitable upon each partlcn- lar field, what they cost to raise and what the balance of profit or loss may be in each case.
 They sheer at agricultural books and papers, and at farmers clubs and institutes.
 They take everything they can get from the soil, and put back nothing.
 They engage in farming without previous training and rely on their wits to carry them safely through Louisiana Farmer.
Nevada County picayune., 1887-03-09
Colonel Curtis says: II had rail

Colonel Curtis says; "l had ralh. CT choose a hog that l have got to catch 10 kill for my own use, than 10 eat one of those helpless, far things that could not get out of your way, and if turned O. is back would stay there till it died. This is ideal 'early maturity and it is dyspepsia by the balrel.'-N. Y. Tribune,
Nevada County picayune., 1887-03-09
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SCHOOL NOTICE.

Mrs. A. X. Kirkland has moved her school to the Tom Allen public school building. Win occupy rooms on the first floor. She has been fortunate in securing Miss Ida Moore as assistant. They will give their careful, conscientious attention to the thorough training of the children m. trusted to their care. They solicit liberal sharo of the pLblic patronage. Terms the same as before.
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Nevada County picayune., 1887-03-09

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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-05-12

side the glorious 49," The few cars
the engine had brought up had been
joined to the train, and ..59" had been
rolled out on the siding. With many
hand-shakings for John. and hearty
kisses for Kate, and a round of parting
cheers for the two, the train had sped
away. The idlers had dispersed, and
none fingered about the abandoned
station save the lovers. '.59" would
stay that night on the siding, and they
had walked up the track to bid it a long
farewell.
For a few moments they stood in the
glow of the great lamp, and then he
quietly put it out, and left the giant to
breath away its fiery life in gentle
clouds of white steam. As for the
lovers, they had no need of its light.
The winter stars shone upon them, and
the calm, cold night seemed a paradise
below Woman's Magazine.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-05-12
ARIsTocRATIc PRIDE.
How General Suwarof Once seTook Down
q Mushroom Nobleman.

How General Suwaroff Once s'Took Down"
q Mushroom Nobleman.
The upstart nobility of Russia is not
held in high esteem by the old families
with ancestors. 1t is said of Suwaroff,
the great campaigner, that he nee
''took down. n of these mushroom
Counts in a way that has become a ira
dition at st. Petersburg. The General
had returned from a victorious cam
paign and received the congratulations
of the Gar through Count Kutaissof,
who had been the body servant of the
Grand Duke Paul, and at the browning
of his master had been m.de a Count.
Suwaroff recc we'd his visitor Hospitality,
and pleaded the failing memory of an
old man as his excuse for not recalling
his family name. 81 suppose the
Kutaissoffs fought against the enemies
of Russia and so earned their title" he
said in an apologize way. The Count
owned that he had never been a
soldier.
"Thcn, doubtless, you have filed
some important foreign mission?"
Never, your Hlghness.
"Or been in the Council?"
''Nor that, either"
''Then permit me to ask, Count, what
distinguished Office you have filled?"
81 had the honor to be body-servant
of his Majesty" was the embarrassed
reply.
"Oh! ah! my very honorable Count,
vcryr' and the old General rang for
his servant. "Troschka, you hog!" he
said when he appeared, chow often
have I told you to stop your drinking
and stealing, and to no purpose? Now,
just look at this gentleman. He was a
mental like you, but he didn't drink
nor steal, and now he is master of the
Cars stables and a Count into the
bargain. See, now, what a chance
fools like you have got, if you half
try."-M. Y. Tribune.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-05-12
A
Great Excitement Caused by the Body of
an Ancient Roman Lady.

Great Excitement Caused by the Body of
an Ancient Roman Lady.
A Roman coffin containing the skele-
ton of a lady was dug up at Plumstead
lately on a spot which appears to have
been a Roman cemetery. The disposal
of the interestings relics gave rise to
some difficulty. The vicar of the par
ish, who does not appear to be an en-
thusiastic antiquarian, caused the re-
mains to be buried in the parish church
yard. This disposition of the relics
was objected to by the owner of the
land on which they were found, and
was also protested against by a repre-
sentative of the Kent Archaeological
society. The county coroner also COM
planned of the remains being disposed
of without his authority, while virtu-
ally in his charge, and, as the cof-
fin is in some respects unique and
in remarkable preservation, the an
tiquarians intend to make strenu-
Gus efforts for its recovery. The Lau
Journal + marks on these preten-
.sions: ..The claims of the that
the remains were in his charge was
altogether inadmissible. The coroner
has no general control over dead
bodies, but only when there is reason
able suspicion of death by extraordin-
airy causes, and his jurisdiction being
practical, and not historical, does not
extend to the investigation of the de-
cease of persons dying some fourteen
hundred years ago. The claim of the
proprietor to the body was equally
without foundation. Not only is a
dead body incapable of being the sub
ject of property, but to disinter, from
whatever motive, a dead body from
consecrated or unconse Grated ground
is a misdemeanor at common law. The
| disinterme 1T in this instance was acct
| dental, but none the less a breach of
hat respectful treatment of a buried
body which the law requires, and the
least that the discoverer of the body
| could do was to RENTER it. Different
considerations apply to the coffin,
which is the subject of property; but
although so Many centuries have elaps-
ed since the sdeath of the lady, the
right of property in the coffin vested in
her representatives has never been
abandoned. EVEN if the owner of the
soil has anyt right of property in the
coffin, it is only rs trustee for the pur-
pose to which it was obviously devoted
namely, the reception of that body.
He would be relieved from this trust
only by the impossibility of finding any
one entitled to assert it. Whether the
vicar of the parish has any rights or
duties in the matter. is doubtful. He
has duties toward the bodies buried in
his church-yard, and he is bound to
bury all baptized persons; but to insist
on the refinement in the c%hurch-yard
of a body buried for centuries seems in
excess Of his power. The proper course
is to apply to the Home Secretary fol
n license to remove the remains" "a
Nsnsfsal teaal Nsat
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-05-12
A Horrible Love Potion.

A short time ago the gravedigger of
Fontcnay-sur-Loing, France, said to
some workingmcn with whom he was
talking at a Ferrieres factory: "Per-
haps you think that dead mems bones
are of no use to any one; but you are
mistaken. 1 have sol some to two
women from Fcrrieres." The police,
hearing of this occurrence, made in
quiries, and the following facts were
revealed: Two women from Ferrieres
went to Fontenay-sur-Loing and asked
the gravedigger for some human bones.
At first he refused, but was soon per-
suadcd to yield by an ample bride. The
women, who passed in the district for
sorceresses, returned home, hiding the
bones for q short time, and then burn
ing them and carefully gathering up
the cinders, their purpose being to pre-
pare a love draught for a young and
pretty country lass, who had ordered it
to rcconquer the heart of a lover who
had turned her of.-PdU Mall Gazette.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-05-12
A UNIQUE FOG HORN.
The Good Results Which Came of Twis
ing a Porkers's Tail.

The Good Results Which Came of Twist
ing q Porkers's Tail.
Christopher Crosby, then q young
man, vas running a small schooner be-
tween Boston and St. John, N. B. An
uncle of young Captain Crosby was
running at the same time one of the
large s~ide-wheel passenger-boats plying
between Portland and St. John.
Most of our readers are no doubt
aware that it is customary during a fog
to blow a tin horn on board of sailing
vessels, in order to prevent collisions;
and the sailors, as they say, take turns
in playing on the mouth-organ."
One morning in the early part of
spring, the eason of the greatest
amount of fog along our North Atlantic
coast, Captain Crosby's vessel was rum
ming on the southwark course from st.
John, about in tile track of his uncle's
steamer, which had left Portland that
morning, and vas liable to come along
at any moment. During the night ono
of the sailors laid tho .mouth-organ'
down on the rail of the schooner and it
rolled overheard. When the captain
came on deck in the morning he found
his vessel in a dense fog, and no horn
on board. For a momenthe was puzzled,
not knowing what to do. Recovering
himself, he set one of the men pound
ing on the anchor with a piece of iron;
for under the circumstances it was
choosing between a positive noise and
a possible death.
Pounding on the anchor made a noise
much better than none, but it could be
heard only a short distance and was
not at all satisfactory.
1t so happened that among the yes.
sells stores the captain had a live pig,
which he allowed to run around Oh
deck. Presently the men ON the
schooner heard in the distance, beat
ing against the water, the wheels of q
steamer, which seemed to be running
directly for their little vessel. They
all screamed at the tops of their voices
for in five minutes they expected to be
struggling in the water. Suddenly il
occurred to the captain that the shril
squeal of a pig could be heard a Ions
distance, and quick as thought he SCI
one of the men pinching the pigs tai
with n pair of nippers. The pig in re
Spouse to each pinch belchcd forth
most blood-curdling shriekAwhich trav
eled far out into the fog.
The steamboat came nearer ant
nearer very slowly. Its captain, faint
ly discerning the outlines of thu
schooner through the fog. and think
ing it was his nephew's vessel, shouted
in IL deep cultural voice: ''Chris, i!
that your yes" replied Captain
Crosby. "Well, l am glad of that
growlcd the uncle, '.for l thought | wa
running ashore and right into a hog
yard."-Americam Magazine.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-05-12
Facts for Western Farmers.

1t is just as true that the bran and
middlings from Western mills should
be fed out on the nearby farms rs it is
that the Southern planters should feed
out the cotton-seed meal instead of eN-
porting it. Experiments at the Mime
sta Agricultural College and Expert
ment Station showed that steers aver
aged to eat 2O4 pounds of bran and Is
pounds of mixed clover and timothy
hay, besides water and salt daily, for
five months from July 10, being kept in
airy sheds and allowed no green food.
The 10ssteers gained 2,94O pounds in
the 15S days, two being killed before
the trial was out. They ate 81 tons of
hay and Is tons of bran, worth Cat s.
and So per ton) about 800, the gain in
weight being worth Cat sc per pouud)
$147. The daily gain was nearly 2
pounds per head. Prof. Porter is doing
well by calling the attention of Western
farmers to the feeding value of b1 an
Farm AID Home.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-05-12
tooDoses One Dollar
Suffering Womanhood.

Too much effort can not be made to bring
to the attention of suffering womanhood the
great value of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound as q remedy for the diseases
of women. Such an one is tho wife of Gen
eral Barringer, of Winston, N. c., and we
quote from the Generals letter as follows:
"Dear Mrs. Pinkham: Please allow mt to
add my testimony to the most excellent
medicinal qualities of your Vegetable Com
pound. Mrs. Barringer was treated for
several years for what the physician called
Leucorrhaa and Prolapsus Uteri com
bined. I sent her to Richmond, Va, where
she remained for six months under the
treatment of an eminent Physician without
any permanent benefit. She was induced
to try your medicine and after a reasonable
time commenced to improve n is now
able to attend to her business and consid-
ers herself fully relieeed." General Barrin-
ger is the proprietor Of the American Ho-
tel, Winston, N. c., and is widely known
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-05-12
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
Don't go in debt for what isn't

Don't go in debt for what isn't
needed.
Sauce for Fish.-The yolks of three
eggs, N teaspoonful of vinegar,
quarter of a pound of butter, a little
salt. Stir over a slow fire until it
thickens.
To clean bottles, put into the bot
ties some kernels of corn, a tablespoon
full of ashes, pour it half full of water,
and, after a vigorous shaking and rms
ing, you will find the bottle as good as
new.
Sponge Cake.--One teacup of
powdered or fine white sugar, three
eggs. one-fourth of a teaspoon of soda,
one-half teaspoon of cream tartar, one
teacup of flour; flavor with Vanilla
Exchange.
1t has been demonstrated that the
quantity of meat produced by sheep de-
livered to the butcher at the precocious
age of from nine to fifteen months costs
exactly half the expense of those fed
to double the age.
The only way that farmers a be-
come intelligent, influential, progress
sing men is to read, listen, observe and
reflect. They must keep their eyes
and ears open. They must acquire
knowledge as other professional men
do.
Milk may be canned just as you
would can fruit. Bring the milk to
the boiling point ard fill your jars to
| the brim with it; then shut air-tight.
This will keep any length of time and
be just as good when opened as when
it was put up.
Here is a good way to hang up the
kitchen broom. Instead of hanging by
a string that always breaks at the
Ewrong time, just have two wooden pins
put into the wal! far apart enough to
admit the handle between, then rest the
broom part on them.
Seek out the cause of bad smells
! in stables and outhouses, and root
them out. Make things clean, then
there will be no smell, and you will be
safe from the germs of disease that
lurk in filth. There is no other safety.
Form, Field and Stockman.
Fried apples.-Make a batter Of
two eggs, a pinch of salt, a cup of milk
and six tablespoonful of flour. Slice,
pare and core tart apples as thin as
Saratoga potatoes. Dip them a spoon
full at a time in the batter and fry. Eat
with powdered sugar and cream or 8
liquid sauce.-Boston Budget.
-Buttermilk and creamery skin
milk. though excellent food for hogs
should be fed only as a part of the IA
tons, as the hog will be compelled tc
drink large quantities in order to pro
vide themselves with a sufficiency
The better plants to allow a ration o.
ground grain in connection with milk
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-05-12
THE TuMBLE-wEED.
Adventure of Party of Western Explorer
Who Were Chased by Flying Balls.

Adventure Of Party of Western Explorers
Who Were Chased by Flying Balls.
While a party of explorers a few
years ago were pushing their way
across one of the arid and desert tracts
of Colorado they were C7srtaken by q
furious windstorm. The clouds accum-
ulated with marvellous rapidity, and in
comparatively a few moments an all
most impenetrable darkness closed in
upon them. Naturally, their first
thought was shelter, but Is far as the
eye could reach not a tree could be
seen, and only far off in the distance
appeared what might be a pile of rocks
or powders. |
Toward this their horses were quickly
turned, and as they approached the
supposed protection, to their astonish-
ment it seemed to move, and soon re-
solved itself into a number of balls of
large size, that, under the advance
gusts of the storm, began to gyrate
about in a remarkable manner. Now
a fierce gust struck them and, as if
some mighty shell had exploded, the
balls rolled away in every direction
over the plain, accompanying their
motion with a strange cracking sound.
What had appeared to be a shelter had
now become an additional danger. The
rolling balls alarmed the horses. The
party, turning about, was soon in a wild
race before the storm, and before the
crashing balls that would now roll
swiftly and evenly along, then striking
some obstacle, bound into the air like
living things, go whirling about, and
come down hundreds of feet away, to
bounce along in the same erratic man
ner. For several miles this race was
kept up. only eeasing when the storm
had spent its fury. The explorers then
stopped to investigate, and found that
the balls were plants, and that this was
n of the many wonderful ways
adopted by nature to secure the dis
persal of the dependents.
The plant in the Colorado country
is known as the great tumble-weed. II
is six feet or more across and four OF
five feet high, and grows in the shape
of a f1attened sph re. 1t has very del
icate and fragile roots that barely hold
it in the dry soil. When it goes to seed
it dries and becomes remarkably brit.
tie. Then the tops bend in together.
and give the plant a still more spherical
form. The roots die and wither, SC
that the first gust of wind sewers thcil
connection with the soil, and away
they go, often collecting in vast
numbers, so that, when piled
together, resembling lodges OF
rocks, as we have seen, they are ready
to break up and roll away with the first
with gale. The force which these plants
strike is astonishing. A horse or tent
could easily be Knocked over, and loss
of life would probably attend theil
movements if they could not be avoid
ed. These migratlons are not without
purpose, as during them the seeds
that are held loosely, are scattered ovel
miles of country, insuring a future
crop of the plants.-SUiss Cross.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-05-12
WEALTHY NEGROES,

Material Progress Made by Representa-
tives of the Colored Race.
John w. Cromwell, a negro journal
list in Philadelphia, has compiled an
exhibition of the business condition OF
his IA in American.
The Carolinas take the lead in the
number of wealthy negroes. North
Carolina has twenty who are worth
from $40, 600 to $50, 600 each. In South
Carolina the negroes own $40, 900, 900
worth of property. In Charleston
fourteen men represent 5000, 600. Thos.
R, Smalls is worth $18, 600, and Chas. C.
Leslie is worth $12, 900. The family of
Noisettes, truck farmers, are worth
$50, 900.
In the city savings banks the negroes
have 1921, 936 35 on deposit. One man
has over $1,000. He recently bought
a $40, 600 plantation and paid 81, 200 in
cash.
In Philadelphia, John Mckee is
worth half a million. He owns four
hundred houses. Several are worth
800, 600.
The negroes Of New York own from
four to six million dollars worth of
real estate. P. A. White, a wholesale
druggist. is worth a quarter of a mill
lion, and has an annual business of
5000, 900. Catharine Black is worth
$3.50, 900.
In New Jersey the negroes own 3d.
600, 600 of real estate. Baltimore has
more negro home-owners than any
other large city. Nineteen men are
worth a total of $500, 600. John Thomas,
the wealthiest, is worth about $780,
600. Less than 100 negroes in WASH
ington are worth a total of 81, 900, 900.
In Louisiana the negroes pay taxes
on SIS, 600, 900 in New Orleans and
$50, 600, 900 in the State. lone Lafon,
a French quadroon, is worth 81, 600, 900.
The Morcer Brothers, clothiers, carry
a stock of $500, 900. Missouri has
twenty-seven citizens worth a million
dollars in amount. ranging from $780,
600 to $3.50, 000.
The richest colored woman of the
South is Amanda Eubanks, made so by
the will of her white father; she is
worth $400, 900, and lives near Augusta,
Ga. Chicago, the homesof $4,000 col
ored people, has three co1ored firms in
business, whose proprietors represent
$40, 900 each, one $15, 900 and nine $10,-
600. A. J.. Scott has $4,000 invested
in the livery business, and is worth
500, 600, including a well-stocked farm
in Michigan. Messrs. John Jones and
Richard Grant are worth $40, 600 each.
A. G. White, of St. Louis, formerly
purveyor to the Anchor line of steam
ers, after financial reverses, has, since
the age of forty-five, retrieved his for
tunes and accumulated $4,000. Mrs.
M. Carpenter, a San Francisco colored
woman, has a bank account of $50, 900,
and Mrs. Mary Pleasant has an income
from eight houses in San Francisco, a
ranch near San Mateo, and 800, 900 in
Government. bonds. In Marysville,
Cal, twelve individuals are the owners
of ranches valued in aggregate at from
$3.50, 900 to $3.50, OOO. One of them,
Mrs. Peggy Bredan, has besides a
bank account of $40, OO0.
These statistics show that the brother
in black is making some Roadway in
the world. He is learning to "tote his
| own skillet. IN Y. Witness.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-05-12
THE ROMANTIC YOUNG NAN,


The forest where wood-thrushes trill
Tn sunny long summer days through,
The banks OF the murmuring rill
That CLEANS with clear opals of dew,
Tit blossoms of white and of blue,
The thickets once haunted by Pan,
He dotes on with tenderness true
He's such a romantic young q
No laugh Of the scorner can chill
His love for the somber of hue;
The cells of his brain viii he fill
With rhymes about ages they knew
TIT warriors who jousted and slew
Their foes in the field as they ran,
And quote them to Sallie and Sue,
He's u a romantic young man.
Der many a far foreign hill
He's roamed like the wandering Jew"
And those who have envied his skill
In singing have been not q few;
TIL pictures he has upon view
Are for the aesthetic to scan;
He can waltz like a dream, h e can WOO,
He such q romantic young man.
ENVOY.
Maids, be this o warming to you!
He's poor, and I know it's his plan
To marry q million or two,
He's such o romantic young man.
-C6atos ScolIard. In Detroit Free Press.